Sled-runner for baby-carriages.



'vvv Pw No. 835,287. PATENTED NOV. 6, 1906.

L. D. OROURKE. 4SLI-3D RUNNER FOR BABY CARRIAGES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed Eebruary 8, 1906. Serial No. 300,108.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEO D. OROURKE, a citizen of the United States of America, residinfT at Voodsfield, in the county of Monroe and tate of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Baby-Oarriages, f which the fIdllowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in baby-carriages and go-carts and the invention has for its primary object to provide a baby-carriage or go-cart with adjustable runners, whereby the babycarriage or go-cart can be used and easily propelled upon snow-covered ground or a frozen surface, such as ice.

My invention aims to provide a baby-carriage or go-cart with simple and inexpensive runners which can be easily adjusted or entirely removed in case it is desired to restore the baby-carriage or go-cart to its original vehicle form having wheels.

Briefly described, I use an ordinary carriage or go-cart having two axles, and in lieu of the wheels generally journaled upon the ends or spindles of the axles I mount boxes carrying adjustable runners, which are adapted to maintain the body of the baby-carriage or go-cart in an elevated position, at the same time maintaining the resiliency of the same in case an irregular or roughened surface is to be passed over.

The detail construction of my invention will be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and, referring to the drawings accompanying this application, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both views, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a baby-carriage constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the same.

In the accompanying drawings the reference-numeral 1 designates the body of a baby-carriage or go-cart, having handle-bars 2 2 and a foot-rest 3. The body 1 of the babycarriage is supported from axles 4 4 by bandsprings 5 5, the front axle 4 being braced from the rear axle by longitudinally-disposed rails 6 6.

My invention resides in providing the ends of the axles 4 4 with cylindrical boxes 7 7, having openings 8 formed therein, adapted to receive the ends of the axles 4. The boxes 7 7 are retained upon the ends of the axles by set-screws 9 9. The boxes are provided with angularly-disposed yokes 10 l0, to which the curved ends 11 11 of runners 12 12 are adjustably secured. The curved ends 11 11 of the runners are enlarged, as at 14, and passing through the enlarged ends are bolts 15 15 adapted to extend through the yokes 10 10 and be retained therein by nuts 16 16.

By referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings it will be observed that the front yoke 10 extends forwardly, while the rear yoke 10 extends rearwardly to permit of the curved ends 1 1 of the runners 12 12 being connected thereto. By loosening the nuts 16 16 it is possible to raise and lower the body 1 of the carriage relative to the runners 12 12, and as the boxes 7 are detachably mounted upon the ends of the axles 4 4 the boxes can be removed and replaced to position the yokes 10 10 inwardly, whereby smaller runners can be used in connection with the baby-carriage or go-cart, if so desired.

I preferably construct the runners, t0- gether with the boxes and their respective yokes, of strong and durable metal, and the simple construction of my improved runners permits of the same being easily and quickly attached to an ordinary type of baby-carriage or go-cart by simplyv removing the wheels therefrom. Should the ends of the axles 4 4 be in the form of spindles, the setscrews 9 are adapted to engage the spindles and prevent the boxes 7 from rotating.

It is obvious that various types of babycarriages and go-carts may be equipped with my improved runners, and such changes in the construction of the runners as to their contour may be resorted to Without departriagey adjnstably mounted thereon, and Jthe ing from the scope of the invention as permisslotted arm adapted to receive a bolt carried sible by the appended claim. by said sled-runners n the slot thereof7 sub- What I claim7 and desire to secure by Letstantially as described. 5 ters Patent, s- In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 A means for attaching sled-runners to in the presence of tWo Witnesses. baby carriages7 comprising a cylindrical- LEO D. OROURKE. shaped member, having a depended slotted Witnesses: arm7 said cylindrical-shaped member adapted LYMAN J. MANN,

V1o to fit upon the end ofthe axle of a baby-car- ROSS HOLMES. 

